You’ve solved my dilemma on which stock to take on a holiday to Japan. It doesn’t matter. You’ve also part explained why film is so expensive in Japan…it’s all imported.
After having my beloved Practika L stolen in the very early 1980s, I bought one of these excellent pocket cameras. It went everywhere with me taking really sharp photos of my young son (from 3 to about 10), my beautiful and classy new girlfriend in 1986 (we were married in 1990 and still are) and my lovely mum (she is no longer with us for the past 3 yrs).
If you understand depth of field, hence zone focus, it’s really easy to use. My standard approach for holiday shot was to try and shoot and f5.6 (sharpest…
Indeed, Gold and ColorPlus are nearly identical, though I think I saw some minute differences when I compared them a couple of years back: analog.cafe/r/kodak-gold-v…
Great compatison, thank you very much. I shot both films this year (but did not make exact comparison) and agree that the differences (if any) are totally negligible. To me, also gold and colorplus appear nearly identical in general shooting.
Jason used Negative Lab Pro to invert his scans with some editing after the fact. While that makes it harder to compare its colours to other films, it appears to have a great dynamic range and good grain control.
As it says on the package: 14 layers in the emulsion. (Jason adds that Kodak Portra films use 16 layers.)
This camera made waves last year as a handheld large-format SLR that could accept peel-apart film, Instax film, medium-format film, and even offered its gigantic top-down finder as a way to create optical bokeh on a smartphone camera. (I wrote about it briefly, here: analog.cafe/r/film-photogr…).
The Verge (Andru) reviewed two new cassette players and a CD player, all of which were made with high-quality materials and featured modern circuitry and software.
This new technology shows familiar parallels to modern film cameras, all of which show the same drawbacks:
Consider Minolta TC-1 (analog.cafe/r/minolta-tc-1…), the world’s smallest full-frame camera. Yes, it’s smaller than the smallest full-frame digital camera in 2025, and it’s made with a…
Harman Phoenix is the newest colour-negative film on the market from a factory that isn’t Kodak. Made by the same company that sells the famous Ilford black-and-white film, Phoenix is their massive investment into a medium they haven’t worked on since the 1960s.
Harman Phoenix II features substantial upgrades to the dynamic range/contrast, grain, and colour over the original.
Since I published the original review, I’ve shot many more rolls of the old and the new…
Commodity fetishism lands Leica in hot water on Threads.
The brand drew fire to its social media account of over 96 thousand followers today with a post that romanticized ownership of their gear more than their followers were willing to take:
“Leica is not just a brand — it’s a lifestyle.
“It’s the reason why people love to take our cameras out on the town.
“It’s the camera that you want to sit next to you in the passenger side of your car.
“It’s the only piece of jewelry that is reciprocal to others…
Update: Kodak issued a statement regarding “Misleading Media Reports.”
The news of Kodak’s financial report that dunked their stock price 25% scared not just investors but also others who depend on their product. Here’s Kodak’s response in full (also found on kodak.com/en/company/blog-…):
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Statement Regarding Misleading Media Reports
August 13, 2025
Media reports that Kodak is ceasing operations, going out of business, or filing for bankruptcy…
For a deeper dive into Kodak’s complex business structure and financial solvency, check out Daren’s 2023 video, when the company’s future still remained in question: youtube.com/watch?v=xf1vFv…
The company’s shares plummeted 25% today after their report revealed a half-billion-dollar debt due within a year with an unclear payoff plan, along with hits to profits and higher costs.
The report (published in full here: finance.yahoo.com/news/kod…) demonstrates lacklustre growth and some considerable slowdowns in parts of the business. Pull quote:
“We expect to have a clear understanding by August 15 of how we will…
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